Relational Psychodynamics

Class Description

DS9061J is the face-to-face class

DS9069J is the online class (Online students will be able to view the lectures 48 hours after each class, videos available on ARK).

Contemporary research highlights the central role of interpersonal relationships as a core element in any helping process. In the ministry of spiritual direction for example, a director needs to be able to enter into a relationship with a directee in a facilitative way and not have major intrapsychic blocks to relationship development.  Using the foundational insights of Bernard Lonergan, Luigi Rulla and Magda Arnold, this unit focuses on self-awareness, self-exploration and self-understanding. Students will be given theoretical frameworks to assist them to gain greater understanding of their own psychodynamics, and insight into others.

LEARNING OUTCOMES

Upon successful completion of this unit, it is expected that participants will be able to:

1. describe and evaluate the influence of the unconscious mind on human behaviour, and specifically on conscious intentionality;
2. demonstrate an informed and critical understanding of key elements in the structure of the self including: intuitive and reflective appraisal; categories of importance in desire and human motivation; actual and ideal self; general and specific attitudes;
3. illustrate and reflect on the following from personal experience: freedom – essential and effective; ego defences, defensiveness and defence mechanisms; compliance, identification and internalization; the worlds of limit and desire; the three levels of psychic life— the physiological, the psychosocial and the spiritual;
4. explain how cultural and gender considerations affect the interpretation of behaviour in psychodynamic psychology;
5. compare and evaluate theories of the influence of childhood experience on human behaviour.

LECTURER

Dr Carlos Raimundo

DATES

Session 1 – Friday 27th  & Saturday 28th  April 2018 (9.00am-5.00pm)

Session 2 – Friday 4th  & Saturday 5th  May 2018 (9.00am-5.00pm)

Session 3 – Friday 25th  & Saturday 26th  May 2018 (9.00am-5.00pm)

VENUE

Jesuit College of Spirituality, 175 Royal Parade, Parkville VIC 3052

Nadal Classroom

FEES

For academic credit                       $2,400

Not for academic credit                $1,200

RECOMMENDED READING

Arnold, Magda B, and John A. Gasson.  The Human Person: An Approach to an Integral Theory of Personality. Charlston, SC: Nabu Press, 2011.

Arnold, Magda B. Emotion and Personality, Volume 1, Psychological Aspects. New York: Columbia University Press, 1960.

Arnold, Magda B. Emotion and Personality, Volume 2, Neurological and Physiological Aspects. New York: Columbia University Press, 1960.

Arnold, Magda B. & E.B. McNeil, The Human Person – An approach to an Integral Theory of Personality. New York: The Ronald Press Company, 1954.

*Ferder, Fran. Words Made Flesh. Notre Dame, IN: Ave Maria Press, 1986.

*Ferder, Fran & John Heagle. Your Sexual Self – Pathway to Authentic Intimacy. Notre Dame, IN: Ave Maria Press, 1992.

Ferder, Fran & John Heagle. Tender Fires: The Spiritual Promise of Sexuality. New York: The Crossroad Publishing Company, 2002.

Hammett, Rosine J. & Loughlan Sofield, Inside Christian Community. Cambridge, MA: Jesuit Educational Centre For Human Development, 1981.

Kiely, Bartholomew M. Depth Psychology and Vocation a Psycho-social Perspective.  Rome: Gregorian University Press, 1987.

*Lonergan, Bernard. Method in Theology. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1971.

Murray, Henry A. Explorations in Personality. New York: Oxford University Press, 1938.

Meisner, William J. Foundations for a Psychology of Grace. Glen Rock, NJ: Paulist Press, 1966.

Rubin, Isaac M (Zick) & E.B. McNeil, The Psychology of Being Human. 3^rd ed, New York:  Harper and Rowe, 1981.

Rulla, Luigi M. Anthropology of the Christian Vocation, Volume 1, Interdisciplinary Basis. Rome: Gregorian University Press, 1986.

Rulla, Luigi M. Depth Psychology and Moral Theology. Rome: Gregorian University Press, 1990.

Rulla Luigi M. & Franco Imoda, “Anthropology of the Christian Vocation”, Volume 2, Existential Confirmation. Rome: Gregorian University Press, 1989.

Shields, Stephanie A. and Arvid Kappas. Magda B. Arnold’s Contributions to Emotion Research and Theory: A Special Issue of Cognition and Emotion (Special Issues of Cognition and Emotion).  Edition 1, New York: Psychology Press, 2008